Abū al-Ḥasan Ṯābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ

PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ

Name (arabic)	أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني الصابئ
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ
Alias	ثابت بن قرة Thābit ibn Qurrah
Born	221H/836J
Died	288H/901J
Born in	Harran
Lived in	Harran Baghdad Samarra
Student of	Banū Mūsá
Teacher of	Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Zayd al-Kātib ibn Karnīb
Number in MAMS	103
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Thabit_ibn_Qurra_BEA.htm
ismi_id	100078

Authored Works

10 works:

Astronomy: General

Iṣlāḥ Kitāb al-Majisṭī li-Baṭlamyūs (Thābit) , إصلاح كتاب المجسطي لبطلميوس

[De motu octave sphere]

[Liber de quantitatibus et planetarum et proportio terre]

Astronomy: Practical

Kitāb Awṭūlūqus fī al-ṭulūʿāt wa-al-ghurūbāt , كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوعات والغروبات

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Risālah fī dhikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā , رسالة في ذكر الأفلاك وحلقها وعدد حركاتها ومقدار مسيرها

Tashīl al-Majisṭī , تسهيل المجسطي

Chronology

Kethābhā meṭūl nāmūse we qānūne de-ʾḥanfe

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī uṣūl al-handasah li-Arshimīdīs , كتاب في أصول الهندسة لأرشميديس

Taḥrīr Kitāb al-mafrūḍāt , تحرير كتاب المفروضات

Taḥrīr Uqlīdis li-Thābit , تحرير أقليدس لثابت

References

Palmeri, JoAnn. 2007. “Thābit Ibn Qurra ”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1129-30. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

Pp. 48-56 (no. 103).

Sezgin, Fuat. 2000. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 10, Mathematische Geographie Und Kartographie Im Islam Und Ihr Fortleben Im Abendland. Historische Darstellung,1. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften.

Rozenfeld, Boris. 1997. “Thābit Ibn Qurra”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Westen Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 969-70. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, pp. 241-44; suppl. 1, pp. 384-86.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 3, Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 260-63, 377.

Zillurrahman, Hakim. 1993. “Thābit Bin Qurrah and His Family of Physicians”. Studies Fur the History of Medicine (and Science) 13 (2): 159-70.

Morelon, Régis. 1988. “Les Deux Versions Du Traité De Thabit B. Qurra ’Sur Le Mouvement Des Deux luminaires’”. Mélanges De l’Institut Dominicain ďÉtudes Orientales 18: 9-44.

Baghirova, Sevinj. 1987. Sochineniye " Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-ḥikmah " Al-Bayhaki Kak Obrazets Srednevekovogo Ensiklopedicheskogo Spravochnika. Tashkent.

Pp. 31-32.

Berggren, J.Lennart. 1986. Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Pp. 104-6.

Krafft, Fritz. 1986. “Thabit Ibn Kurra”. In Die Großen Der Weltgeschichte, 325-26.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

Pp. 37-38.

Van der Waerden, B. 1985. A History of Algebra From Al-Khwārizmī to Emmy Noether. Berlin: Springer.

Pp. 15-23.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and et al, eds. 1984. Matematicheskie Traktati. Nauchnoye Nasledstvo. Vol. 8. Moscow.

Pp. 8-25.

Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, VIII-XVII Vv [Mathematicians and Astronomers of the Muslim Middle Ages and Their Works, VIII-XVII Centuries]. 3 vol. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. 2, pp. 85-103 (no. 66); vol. 3, p. 362.

Rahman, Abdur, M Alvi, Shabbir Ghori, and Samba Murthy. 1982. Science and Technology in Medieval India : A Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.

Pp. 355-56, 385-86.

Morelon, Régis. 1982. “Les Textes Astronomiques Arabes De Thābit B. Qurra”. Paris: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris).

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 151-52, 268-70, 404-5.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 163-70.

Youschkevitch, Adolf, M. Cazenave, and K. Jaouiche. 1976. Les mathématiques Arabes (VIIIe-XVe siècles). Paris: J. Vrin.

Pp. 114-15, 123-28, 172-75.

Gillispie, Charles, Boris Rozenfeld, and A.T. Grigorian. 1976. “Thābit Ibn Qurra”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 13:288-195. New York: Scribner.

Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1976. “Abū Al-Ḥasan Thābit Ibn Qurra Al-Ṣābiʾ Al-Ḥarrānī”. In The Genius of Arab Civilization: Source of Renaissance (GAC), 140-41. Oxford: Phaidon Press.

Rozenfeld, Boris. 1975. “Thābit Ibn Qurra”. In Scienziati E Tecnologi Dalle Origini Al 1875, 3:191-92.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 264-72, 402.

Sansur, Antun, and S. Krasnova]. 1974. “Novyye Issledovaniya O Matematicheskom Tvorchestve Sabita Ibn Korry”. In Actes Du Congrès International d’histoire Des Sciences 13 , 3-4:99-103.

Sansur, Antun. 1971. “Matematika V Astronomicheskikh, Mekhanicheskikh I Filosofskikh Traktatakh Sabita Ibn Korry”. In Nauchnoy Konferentsii Aspirantov I Mladshikh Nauchnykh Sotrudnikov Instituta Istorii Yestestvoznaniya I Tekhniki, Sektsiya Istorii Matematiki I Mekhaniki, Sekstiya Istorii Fiziki, 14:17-25.

Sansur, Antun. 1971. Matematicheskiye Trudy Sabita Ibn Korry. Moscow.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 1970. Aufsätze Zur Arabischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 2 vol. New York: George Olms.

Vol. 2, p. 548-78.

Mieli, Aldo. 1966. La Science Arabe Et Son rôle Dans l’évolution Scientifique Mondiale. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 86-87.

Ruska, Julius. 1966. “Sâbit B. Kurra”. In İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 10:14-15.